On A Broken Edge · I Promised The World

120 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 11 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ON A BROKEN EDGE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 15, 17, 19 and 16 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 15 sections: 67 keep time, 22 are fills, 11 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-33.

CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART C
PART T
PART M
PART X
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDJMADX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On A Broken Edge?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is On A Broken Edge hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in On A Broken Edge?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 15, 17, 19 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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